Confining Synonyms and Antonyms

Deprive of freedom; take into confinement
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. locking
  2. jailing
  3. interning
  4. incarcerating
  5. detaining
  6. imprisoning
  7. immuring
Antonyms:
  1. freeing
Enclose, limit
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. imprisoning
  2. closeting
Antonyms:
  1. freeing
  2. releasing
  3. liberating
Close in; darkness enclosed him""
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. enclosing
  2. walling
  3. holding
  4. locking
  5. immuring
  6. restraining
  7. barring

Words Related to Confining

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Confining Sentence Examples

  • Without having recourse to any elaborate process of economic reasoning, by confining out attention to one simple question, namely, what happened, we can establish conclusions of the greatest interest to economic historians and, further, define the problem we have to investigate.

  • Confining our attention, for the present, to di-substitution products we see that there are three distinct series of compounds to be considered.

  • A result of confining the stream between its containing banks is the rapid growth of the delta.

  • He confesses result that, in confining all cognition to single perceptions and.

  • The king made admirable use of the opportunity he had secured, confining his efforts, however, to Saxony and Thuringia, the only parts of Germany over which he had any control.

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